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1. We need to partner with our parents to bring them along a co-designers
2. We need policies and practices that address parents needs and also allows them to grow as school advocates and leaders
3. We need to communicate the value our parent community

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- Engage families in the work
-Organize statewide conversations and gatherings (similar to what's happening at the CSxFE23 conference)
-Create more awareness around Community Schools-- what is it and what's the benefit?
-Communicate more and better around what it is that is already happening. Creating understanding around what's happening. Have consistent communication with all stakeholders.

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Expanded partnership with Michigan Works, banks, DHHS

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Awareness of what community education is and what the community school model consists of are fundamental for discovering and leveraging funding opportunities, and promoting inclusion from a site level to a systems level. The stakeholders to move this forward are funders, community partners, scholars,  families, administrators, teachers...Essentially any entity or individual with a measureable level of investment in the school's success.

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Awareness of what community education is and what the community school model consists of are fundamental for discovering and leveraging funding opportunities, and promoting inclusion from a site level to a systems level. The stakeholders to move this forward are funders, community partners, scholars,  families, administrators, teachers...Essentially any entity or individual with a measureable level of investment in the school's success.

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We believe the focus should be on Awareness—-what value Community Education and their Coordinators/Directors. bring to the table

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Is there a way to standardized data collection for Community Schools Collecting unique data. Etc.

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Increase professional development training opportunities for school staff around family engagement. Ex. Professional Development around Karen Map’s new book Everybody Wins which talks about moving from family involvement to family engagement. Let’s get MDE onboard to support this work at the state level?

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Increased buy in for the community school strategy 

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Increased buy in for the community school strategy 

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A shift from transactional to transformational work where all stakeholders are engaged in the work.

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Citywide attendance campaign

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Statewide communication to share successes and best practices

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Standardize training for all school staff to create buy in from all

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Building a parent co leadership group to help lead this work

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Parent education

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A platform or community board to help share ideas and share resources

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In an effort to advance CS, a template of a how to implement CS model will be beneficial. 

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In an effort to advance CS, a template of a how to implement CS model will be beneficial. 

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Family Interaction And Family Networking/ Building Stronger Relationships With Families And Staff

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• Partners to Engage;
• Policies we can Advocate;
• Learnings we can spread;
• Communications

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Paid Opportunities for Parents

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Monthly parent led meetings (providing platform for parents to express expectations and ask questions to school administration)

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Increased Parent Engagement

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Family Interaction And Family Networking

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Family Interaction And Family Networking

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Collaborative leadership including parents and students

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Increase funding to provide equitable support to establish community schools as the way we do school in Michigan

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Expand to other schools within your community

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Expand to other schools within your community

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An intentionality in strategies and tactics to make family engagement a part of the fabric of a successful school experience for students. This requires a mindset shift. Family engagement, advocacy, and leadership are not add ons. They are necessary conditions for optimal students success outcomes. 

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An intentionality in strategies and tactics to make family engagement a part of the fabric of a successful school experience for students. This requires a mindset shift. Family engagement, advocacy, and leadership are not add ons. They are necessary conditions for optimal students success outcomes. 

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Collaboration, alignment with one another, consistent messaging 

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Collaboration, alignment with one another, consistent messaging 

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Including parents and families in student celebration.

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STEM Night , Cinco De Mayo (STEAM)
Back to school barbecue
Fall Festival
Holiday Extravaganza
Invitations for Student of the Month celebration
Field Trips

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Advocate for more funding to support from state and federal government to adopt community education.

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Family STEM Night
Families allowed in the building
More parent volunteers

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Double the number of family events in our schools

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Networking and sharing ideas/resources

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Family engagement included family events and additional parent workshops that included dinner and parent learning. We did a math series, reading series, parenting series and brought in Michigan Works for job embedded workshop.

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Parent committees are given the voice, space and opportunity to provide and volunteer services and meaningful experiences.

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Engage other school districts
Continue to promote, market, show up and show out!

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Sharing ideas and resources to make the movement grow

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Sharing ideas and resources to make the movement grow

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Parent engagement through social media modalities

Increased the partnerships (Amazon, Mens Wearhouse, KFI ( kids First Initiative)

Attendance has increased by providing transportation to homeless families

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Family Night Events
Parent meetings

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Our school partnership with our Brownell-Holmes Neighborhood Association has been a key to our whole community success.

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Responsive programs based on what parents and families want

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Integrating family centered activities and programs as a consistent part of the school experience. This is a catalyst for cultivating community and moving parents from involvement to engagement to advocacy and leadership. 

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Integrating family centered activities and programs as a consistent part of the school experience. This is a catalyst for cultivating community and moving parents from involvement to engagement to advocacy and leadership. 

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Our school continues to have a before and after school valet service for our parents/students. This allows us to have direct interaction with families each day.

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Generation, models of families, polite family center coaching. Pack time activities, adult education, monthly family, fun activities, weekly Saturday programming, parent education.

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Parent focus groups

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Open school activities on Saturday including STEAM activities and opening the gym

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Supporting parents with math and reading techniques used at schools is increasing parent involvement with learning.

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FE has grown this school year with international opportunities for families to support scholars academically (Math game night, Family Science night, Virtual Movie night etc. 

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FE has grown this school year with international opportunities for families to support scholars academically (Math game night, Family Science night, Virtual Movie night etc. 

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Parents are finally allowed back into school buildings, providing opportunities to volunteer and support the school. 

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Parents are finally allowed back into school buildings, providing opportunities to volunteer and support the school. 

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Sports education partnerships have succeeded in providing athletic opportunities for all students during the after school space curating teams and leagues from kindergarten to 6th grade. Creating comradery and community among students, parents and facilitators at all levels.

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Wide range of Parent And Child Together time activities at many school buildings

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Programs that include 2 or more generations

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Family Night events

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Having a welcoming environment for parents to come in and use our parent resource room, volunteer in classrooms and communicate with teachers and admin.

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Family field trips to local places such as Henry Ford, Cranbrook and camp. Saturday

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Frequent contact with parents, using whatever means necessary, not just focusing on the negative

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Families being allowed back in the schools post COVID

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Engaging with families in their space is reducing chronic absenteeism

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Monthly family nights
Parent Connection
Community Gardens

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Monthly Parent Meetings

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Increased strategies regarding listening to youth and family voice.

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State level funding for school based mental health services

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PBIS
Multi- Tier Support System
Strong Community Partnership by assisting with the effort of supporting students, families and the community

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Increased STEM extended day offerings.

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Developing and maintaining an environment for families to have a voice to create resources for them.

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P20 programmin  (prek, k-8 and high school all on one campus!

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We have done an amazing job letting the students know they are important and we love them. My Principal has created an environment where the students love to come to school.

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-After school programming has gone well
-Attendance has gone pretty well at my school.
-Community partner participation has gone well at my school as well.

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Integration of community education during regular school hours.

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Meaningful interactions with parents and families through home visits and evening events.

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Attendance Intervention Strategies

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Igniting and rekindling community Partnerships with multidimensional stakeholders.

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Igniting and rekindling community Partnerships with multidimensional stakeholders.

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Extended learning opportunities

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Success Mentoring

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Some of the community schools will be getting the well needed physical updates that they need. Students can’t thrive in a building that’s falling apart.

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Increased extended day for students and parents.

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Having staff that look like the population of kids we serve.

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Embedded climate strengthening among students and staff.

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Embedded climate strengthening among students and staff.

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PBIS, increased parent engagement

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Matching caring adults with chronically absent students to focus on attending school every day and growth mindset

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Increased funding for mental health

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Attendance agents, PBIS, Success Mentoring, Monthly Pride Circles

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Community Educational Programs/ Community Education

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Increased funding
Improved collaborative strategies
Community schools in Flint have demonstrated impact from success mentoring

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Moving the needle on building and infrastructure improvements.  

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Moving the needle on building and infrastructure improvements.  

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Hiring people to work with students who look like them

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Success mentoring- an attendance intervention

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Success mentoring- an attendance intervention

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Success Mentoring

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Community Support

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Grief support